Thank you for introducing us to this lovely form. I really enjoyed your post and poems, and learned something new. I love this poem--it has a city-like mysterious nighttime feeling, well matched with your photo. You gave the garland cinquain form a modern interpretation :)

You make this form seem so effortless. I love your approach which allows for the enjambment between cinquains - the flow is just incredible, and the final garland ties up the whole journey to perfection.

This is the picture I liked the most Marian--something very evocative about the arm gesture, very human, and you catch that feeling in your piece, along with a lot of other plays on light and darkness. Coincidentally, your garland cinquin form is a kind of introduction for the form I'm doing next week--stay tuned! Loved the prompt, love the form, and loved these lines especially:

uh oh, i think the garland is very hard! for me, forms that repeat are very challenging. i am convinced that the people who attacked garland cinquains this week are also lovers of (to me) horrid forms like sestina and whatnot. so maybe i'm in trouble next week!

Hi again, Marian. Just wanted to stop by one more time to say thank you for your encouraging comment on my poems. I appreciate the feedback since it was the first time I tried out the form. You're a good teacher! To answer your question, I actually live in the countryside of New York, not far from NYC. So glad you enjoyed your trip to NYC and that it inspired such a creative poem. I love taking urban photos and I post many shots of NYC on my blog. It's snowing today and our farmer's market is indoors, so we were able to get the lavender bouquet. Glad you liked my post. It's been so nice to meet you! :)

Wow, me at night, sitting over my bills, noting what isn't clean, seeing my body's shape reflected back at me from the glass where I didn't close the curtains--that's where you took me, into my own underpopulated space waiting to share with someone.... I am not even sure I read your story though I have read this three times now, I have a superimposed reflection. Sometimes it happens like that. Thank you.

Wow, I think it must be awfully hard to include all five lines, and to make them make sense together AND wrap up the whole piece as a good strong ending should. That's an awful lot to ask. This challenge is a really fun one, and I learned something. Besides, Marian, you are such a good host!

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